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Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act

Introduced: March 28, 2012 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 26, 2012
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Apr 16, 2012
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Mar 28, 2012
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 28, 2012
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E472)
Mar 28, 2012
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to remove a provision excluding from application of the Act any disparate impact case filed before March 1, 1975, and decided after October 30, 1983. (Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio, 1989, held that, in cases brought under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the burden is on the plaintiff to prove an employer had no business necessity for a practice with discriminatory effects.) Applies the amendments made by the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to a case that is subject to the removed provision in the same way such amendments apply to any other case brought under the employment discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

What's happening now September 26, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1